P/P NEWSLETTER | XII.22.2008

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Picture/Poems by Cliff Crego

In every picture,
there's a poem;
In every poem,
a picture.

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Dear Friends:

Here's what's new on the Picture/Poem website
the fourth week of December 2008

Picture/Poems: Central Display (and follow links to...)

http://www.picture-poems.com

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REALLY-READY-FOR-WINTER
PHOTO FEATURE:

*PURCHASE ONLINE
PICTURE/POEM CliffCards*

Box of 12 Note Cards $12.00 + shipping

featured image is from this week's PhotoWeek
BUDDHA CHRISTMAS---send a friend an image of
natural North America or the European Alps

http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf472e84a597
[image may not display in all browsers . . . ]

| larger image |

OTHER CliffCards
http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/gallery.jsp?gid=768a5498ce7cfd04fd65

*PHOTOWEEK NORTHWEST X.7.2008 PDF*

A new webmagazine format of about 75 pages
with 24 mages and texts, internally
linked, and easily resizable fonts . .

http://picture-poems.com/pdfs/photoweek_10-7-08.pdf [4.2 Mb 75 pages]

[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]
Please let me know how you like this new format!

Listen to texts & poems selected from this issue:

http://picture-poems.com/mp3/picture-poems_11-17-08.m4a [ c. 10' 8.7 Mb ]
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

New this week: order prints from this week's
featured images. Select from a set of 24:
http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf3d112fa53d&re=slideshow

View as slideshow:
http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/slideshow.jsp?auto=1&aid=768a5498cf3d112fa53d&idx=-1

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Featured photograph/poems from "Images of the Natural Year":

*Teasel Symmetry and the Marriage
of Inner and Outer Worlds*

This week, five new translations from the
DUTCH [with intro & poster]:

Memories of Holland

Thinking about Holland,
I see broad rivers
moving slowly through
endless lowlands,
rows of unthinkably
thin poplars
standing as high plumes
on the horizon;
and sunken within
wonderful space,
farm houses
scattered throughout the land,
clusters of trees, villages,
cropped towers,
churches and elms
in one great association.
the air hangs low
and the sun is slowly
muffled in a gray
mottled fog,
and in all the many provinces
the voice of the water
with its eternal calamities
is feared and heard.

Hendrik Marsman (1899-1940) (tr. Cliff Crego)

http://www.cs-music.com/features/teaselVII.html

The Gerrit Achterberg poem, Hulshort (a place name in the forested
eastern part of Holland), is a part of a soundpoem cycle I've
composed called Stonesong. You can download and listen to
the short (1' 30') Hulshorst movement—made with electronically
mixed / digitized natural sounds and my own voice—at:
http://picture-poems.com/mp3/stonesong_hulshorst.mp3 [700 K]

[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

You can also download the entire soundpoem cycle at:
http://picture-poems.com/mp3/stonesong.mp3 [15' 6.7 Mb]

Or listen in streamed RealAudio: RA

[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

Or visit the P/P nested website *r2c* for Dutch poetry
in new English translations at:

http://www.cs-music.com/features/r2c.html

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Featured at Photoweek Northwest: a new set of images
& texts composed during treks during the months of October and
November in the High Wallowas:

*SNOWY PASSAGE*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/wallowas_northside_10-7-08.html

*OCTOBER PATH*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/october-path_10-7-08.html

*ALPINE LAKE, TREELINE*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/alpinelake_treeline_2.html

*TOPO -- LAKE BASIN*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/topo_lakes-basin.html

*FIREWEED*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/epilobium_8-23-08bw.html

*POLISHED GRANITE, NICHE ERRATICS*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/glacier-polish_niche_errat.html

*STUDY IN FORM*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/mandelbrot_5_bw.html

*ASPEN LEAVES*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/quaking-aspen-leaves.html

*RIGHT OF THE LINE & OUT OF CONTROL*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/right-of-the-line_5-6-08_b.html

*HOLLY BROOK, HIDDEN LAKE*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/holly-brook_hidden-lake.html

*DIPPER FALLS, WHISPER VEIL*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/dipper-falls_whisper-veil.html

*25 DECADES OF TREE-TIME & WHEN GROWTH IS 'FALSE COMPARE'*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/stonepine-timeline.html

*WESTERN MOUNTAIN HEATHER*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/cassiope-merteniana_8-24-0.html

*BROKEN BRIDGE, PINE CREEK*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/broken-bridge_pine-c10-31.html

*HARMONICA & FIDDLE DUO*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/harmonica-fiddle_duo_bw.html

Or go to the new updated Photoweek Northwest Image Index at:

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/photoweek-archive_nw.html

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Featured Miniatures:

*ZERO WASTE!*

http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_waste.html

DOWNLOAD PDF:
http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_waste.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

*MONEY!*

http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_money.html

DOWNLOAD PDF:
http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_money.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

Or go to the P/P Miniatures Archives at:

http://cs-music.com/features/cards/archive-miniatures.html

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Featured Picture/Poem:

THE MAN AT THE DOOR SAYS NO
Between me and the poem there
is a door and a man who guards
the door. He thinks he has a clear
image of who to let inside.

For years now, we have tried to be
friends, but he's a demanding critic,
saying he just wants to help and
that every house must have a door.

But he has no love in his heart.

He watches over the playground
of my fantasy like a mean
priest prods his boys from the open
field back into the one-room school.

And he neither rests nor sleeps.
I look out my window into
nameless landscapes, thinking I sense
the faint figure of a new friend.

But the man at the door says no.

So here I sit, alone in my house.
I dare not even try. Songs I
might have sung lie mute and dumb like
children who were never allowed to speak.

http://picture-poems.com/features/man-at-the-door.html

Part of ON PATHS: download as ebook / or pdf at: [1 Mb]
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]
http://picture-poems.com/ebooks/on-paths.pdf

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Featured Picture/Poem Musical Composition:

*WINTER SONGS*

A song cycle for mezzo-soprano & violin,
based on poems by Rilke, Dickonson,
William Stafford & Wallace Stevens.

Go to INTRO at:
http://cs-music.com/voice/intro_winter-songs.html

Listen to Cliff read the poems at:
http://cs-music.com/voice/winter-songs.html
(REQUIRES QuickTime)

Performance model is at:
http://cs-music.com/movs/winter-songs.mov
(REQUIRES QuickTime)

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Featured Links:

*SAD—Sudden Aspen Death*

The signature Quaking Aspens of especially the
drier and lower parts of the Rocky Mountain West
are in trouble. This set of links brings together people,
theories, and photos, all looking for answers.

http://picture-poems.com/links

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Help to Picture/Poems & Photoweek Northwest
to Alaska and beyond!

Make a donation online with PayPal at:
http://picture-poems.com/support_3.html

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As always, your comments and
suggestions are welcome.

All the best.
Cliff Crego
Richland, Eagle Valley, Northeast Oregon,
The Wallowas, USA
crego@picture-poems.com

Get the new Picture/Poem Calendar *SNAKE RIVER DECEMBER* at:
http://cs-music.com/features/calendars/calendar_snake-river_12.html

Or DOWNLOAD as PDF at: [to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]
http://cs-music.com/features/calendars/calendar_snake-river_12.pdf

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	Memories of Holland Thinking about Holland, I see broad rivers moving slowly through endless lowlands, rows of unthinkably thin poplars standing as high plumes on the horizon; and sunken within wonderful space, farm houses scattered throughout the land, clusters of trees, villages, cropped towers, churches and elms in one great association. the air hangs low and the sun is slowly muffled in a gray mottled fog, and in all the many provinces the voice of the water with its eternal calamities is feared and heard. Hendrik Marsman (1899-1940) (tr. Cliff Crego) http://www.cs-music.com/features/teaselVII.html


	THE MAN AT THE DOOR SAYS NO Between me and the poem there is a door and a man who guards the door. He thinks he has a clear image of who to let inside. For years now, we have tried to be friends, but he's a demanding critic, saying he just wants to help and that every house must have a door. But he has no love in his heart. He watches over the playground of my fantasy like a mean priest prods his boys from the open field back into the one-room school. And he neither rests nor sleeps. I look out my window into nameless landscapes, thinking I sense the faint figure of a new friend. But the man at the door says no. So here I sit, alone in my house. I dare not even try. Songs I might have sung lie mute and dumb like children who were never allowed to speak. http://picture-poems.com/features/man-at-the-door.html